Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Multifarious

Multifarious , adjective

[Latin multifarius; multus much, many. Compare Bifarious.]

1.
Having multiplicity; having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified; made up of many differing parts; manifold.
There is a multifarious artifice in the structure of the meanest animal. — Dr. H. More
2.
(Botany) Having parts, as leaves, arranged in many vertical rows.